Meaning not yet researched.
Mikaila: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #932 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #932 in 2001; #14,358 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mikaila in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#14,358 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #932.
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Mikaila: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #932 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 239 (2001).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Mikaila, making it the 14,358th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #932, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 239. For comparison, it was #3,960 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mikaila in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 5 babies. In all, 2,390 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,060 babies named Mikaila.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 120 US girls were named Mikaila; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mikayla (56,724 babies since 1880), Mikaela (20,719 babies since 1880), Micaela (14,983 babies since 1880) and Mikala (4,018 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mikaila in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,358 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,348 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,139 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,361 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,352 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,243 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,309 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,320 | — | — |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,703 | — | — |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,960 | — | — |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,423 | — | — |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,444 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,410 | — | — |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,981 | — | — |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,830 | — | — |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,843 | — | — |
| 2008 | 84 | #2,330 | — | — |
| 2007 | 83 | #2,324 | — | — |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,503 | — | — |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,547 | — | — |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 2002 | 130 | #1,478 | — | — |
| 2001 | 239 | #932 | — | — |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1999 | 103 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 1998 | 132 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1997 | 132 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1996 | 124 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1995 | 120 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1994 | 82 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,371 | — | — |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,191 | — | — |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,333 | — | — |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,538 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,537 | — | — |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,822 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,226 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,312 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,547 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).